Integrative Reflection Report

Purpose. Describe the organization at which you interned.

Entire section: One or 2 paragraphs.

Project OR Learning Activities–Description and Accomplishments. Describe your Project OR your Learning Activities, your role in the organization/project; the activities you performed; the skills and knowledge you acquired.  What value did you contribute to the organization?

Write a description (2-3 job duties) related to the project or learning activities that can be added to your resume.

Entire section: Typically 2-3 pages

1. Personal Reflection. In this section, you will reflect on your internship, Career Services/Career Management Center virtual workshops you attended and the virtual business panel experience. Critically evaluate how they informed your career and personal/professional development. Specifically, your reflection must respond to the following questions:

1)    What were your personal objectives when you started the internship?  Did your internship meet your personal expectations?  Discuss if and how your goals and expectations were met. If not, what steps did you take to achieve them? 

2)    What type of tasks did you discover that you enjoy or excel at completing? Which ones   are less attractive or fulfilling?

3)    What did you learn about planning and implementing a task?  What specific resources did you utilize to improve the process? Based on your internship experience what specific planning and organizing skills did you develop or hope to develop?

4)    What did you learn about leading and managing people, based on your interaction with your site supervisor and others in the organization?  What specific leadership skills did            you find to be important and how would you effectively develop these skills in yourself       and others?  

5)    Did you engage in evaluating and monitoring your own performance?  What mechanisms will you use in the future to evaluate and improve your performance?

6)    Reflect on your own interaction as well as your observation of interactions within the                organization. What did you learn about your interpersonal skills (communication;                building networks; collaboration; resolving conflict), strengths and areas for                improvement?

1. 7)    Based on your internship experience, what did you learn about workplace diversity?       Was it present or lacking? If present or lacking what were the benefits and challenges?           

8)    List the virtual career workshops you attended and outline how they helped you

      advance your        career and managerial competencies. ( also include as a separate page

      to submit to Assignments.)

9)    Discuss five major takeaways from the  business panel presentation about starting  

      and/or advancing your career. ( also include as a separate page to submit to

1.       Assignments.)

Entire section: Typically 5-6 pages

Conclusion. Draw some general conclusions based on the internship, career workshops, and business panel experience. Specifically, comment on the following:

1)    Overall value you gained from the key components of the class: internship; career                workshops; and business panel.

2)    Did this overall experience complement your classroom learning and knowledge?           

Entire section: Typically 2 paragraphs 

Elevator Pitch: Craft a 1-minute elevator pitch of your internship experience (approximately 200 words).

Appendices (properly labeled as letters (e.g., Appendix A, B, C, etc.) and you will reference the each proof in Appendix B in your report.  Links are permitted.  Make sure I will have permission to access those links. 

Appendix A: Project or Learning Activity Contract

Course Project or Learning Activity Contract (Copies of original submitted to

Professor)

Appendix B: Proof of Completing Activities  ( For any confidential information that cannot be included as proof-   Have your supervisor include the following sentence in the Supervisors Letter of Evaluation.   ” Due to confidentiality, there is certain information that has not been included in the student’s final project report”.

Supporting material for first completed project activity or learning objective (Proof)

Supporting material for second completed project activity or learning objective

(Proof)

Supporting materials for third completed project activity or learning objective

(Proof)

Supporting material for fourth completed project activity or learning objective (Proof)

Supporting material for fifth completed project activity or learning objective

(Proof)